Leyland is likely to push for the job to go to either Lloyd McClendon or Gene Lamont, two former managers who have been on his Tigers coaching staff for his entire eight-year run.

I don't hate the Tigers enough to wish either of those two on Detroit.

Calling Lloyd and Gene Lamont "two former managers" without qualifying that statement by mentioning they managed the pirates is like calling Jeff Sklling and Barry Madoff business executives without mentioning the massive frauds they perpetrated.

Leyland is likely to push for the job to go to either Lloyd McClendon or Gene Lamont, two former managers who have been on his Tigers coaching staff for his entire eight-year run.

I don't hate the Tigers enough to wish either of those two on Detroit.

Calling Lloyd and Gene Lamont "two former managers" without qualifying that statement by mentioning they managed the pirates is like calling Jeff Sklling and Barry Madoff business executives without mentioning the massive frauds they perpetrated.

Excellent analogy. Lamont melted the arms of Benson, Cordova and Schmidt because he had no idea that perhaps young pitchers should be protected. As for Lloyd, the 9th innings of these two games that are eternally burned into my memory sums everything up:

In the first game, he didn't intentionally walk a scorching-hot Derrek Lee because Lee was the righty and he didn't want the lefty Burnitz facing the righty Mesa. In the second he intentionally walks Corey f'ing Patterson to set up a lefty/righty matchup that didn't materialize because the Cubs used the pinch-hitter they were always going to use.